| When Max told Liz that he couldn’t just heal anyone and that he wasn’t God, I don’t think he meant that he couldn’t save anyone from strokes or cancer. Max told Liz that it wasn't her time. She was young. He was able to bring her back to life.
I think Max meant that he knew old people eventually die, no matter how much effort goes into saving them. Max understood that death is an inevitable end to old age.
Max healed the children of cancer at the hospital. The way he healed them left a handprint on them, just as a handprint was left on Liz, when he healed her. Children have the capacity to heal and improve with treatment.
A stroke is caused by blockage or rupture of a blood vessel. Strokes can damage part of the brain, which in turn impairs a range of functions including movement of body parts and communication. Some strokes cause severe injury and death. People who are younger are more likely to recover from stroke, than people who are old.
Grandma Claudia’s doctor initially expected her to recover from her stroke. The second stoke damaged so much of Grandma Claudia’s brain that her doctor believed that she would die. Liz could see it in his eyes that he didn’t expect her to live. When the brain and body are too damaged, recovery isn’t possible. Likewise, after Alex died, he couldn’t be brought back to life. Also Alex had been dead for an extended period of time, before Max tried to heal him.
The children with cancer were young. They had been receiving medical treatment. Max was able to heal them of their disease. He collapsed from his efforts. It took him time to recover his powers.
Max healed Clayton, who was a very old man. Older people’s bodies don’t have the healing capacity to recover from injury or disease that younger people have. There was so much wrong with Clayton’s aged body that Max used up all of his energy in healing him. Max’s own body died in the process of healing Clayton. Max’s spirit and memories transferred into Clayton’s body.
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